I had the same problem. After updating to Lion, every time I sent a print job, I received the Message that IP 2.1 was not working and that the printer was trying IP 1.1. Then the print job was paused. I could print it by selecting Resume when I looked at the job in the print queue, but it was annoying to have to do it.

After some trial and error, I found the old version (05.04.00) of the Xerox Phaser 6280 DN firmware did not support IP2 correctly with Lion. So I updated the printer firmware to the latest version (05.06.00). Then I reinstalled the printer in Lion. Then the printer worked perfectly.

The advantage of this approach is that you do not need to set the printer to use Postscript or the LPD. Everything works with Bonjour without the requirement to make any additional settings.

I have the Xerox Phaser 6280DN that I use as a network printer. Under Snow Leopard, I used Bonjour to find the printer and all computers could print to the printer just fine.

After I upgraded my OS to Lion. The problems began. Xerox does not offer a Lion Driver on their website. The Xerox print driver that came standard with Lion did not work. As under Snow Leopard, after installing Lion, I used Bonjour to find the printer and added the default print driver (Xerox Phaser 6280DN). However, when I tried to print, the printer gave a message that the ipp2 protocol was not supported. It sent the job to the print queue and paused. To be able to print the job, I had to open the print queue and resume the print job. The job would print. Then I had to clear the queue.

Another symptom: the computer did not seem able to see that a printer was on the network, as evidenced by an exclamation point that was visible when you went to select the printer from the print dialog. I had been using DHCP to assign an IP address to the printer. This was problematic, because the DHCP server could change the IP address. So it was not possible to configure the printer by pointing it to a stable IP address.

After trying a number of different solutions that did not work reliably, this one did.

Step 1. Assign a stable IP address to the printer.

I used a web browser to go directly to the Printer’sconfiguration Utility (CentreWare Internet Services). Look in the printer's users manual for how to login to this utility. This utility lets you configure the printer directly. In this utility, under the Properties tab, I manually assigned a stable IP address to the printer that was compatible with my network. Note: You have to assign a stable IP address that is compatible with your network. The DHCP settings on my router assigns IP addresses within a range of 192.168.1.100 through 192.168.1.149. The IP addressfor the router’s gateway is 192.168.1.1. So I assigned this stable IP address to the printer: 192.168.1.2. That way the printer IP addressis not only stable but it can be found on the network and the DHCP server will not assign 192.168.1.2 to any other device on the network.

Step 2. Add the printer and configure it as a Line Printer.

When you hit the plus button to add the printer, select “Add other Printer or Scanner.” In the add Printer dialog, the Xerox Phaser is shown as a Bonjour printer. In the Add Printer dialog, select the IP icon to configure the IP options with these settings:

Protocol: Line Printer Daemon - LPD

Address: 192.168.1.2 (or whatever you assigned the printer as the static IP).

I have just installed Lion on my Macbook Pro and bought a new Imac with Lion. Neither will print t our Xerox 8560DN

I get the out of ink message. It's not cosmetic as I can't print and its not out of ink. It prints fine on my Windows PC on the same network. Definately a Lion/Xerox bug in my opinion. I have installed the latest drivers from Xerox and get same message.

Who is responsible for sorting this Apple or Xerox?

Has anyone found a work around buying a new printer seems extreme surely someone can fix this? I notice the other posts are at least a month old so looks like nothing is happening!

I've had similar problems of printer pause (Xerox 6280) and then nothing happens. Some workarounds did the job until the latest Lion upgrade to 10.7.2 then I can't even get the Mac to try to setup the printer. I was using ethernet with a Time Capsule for switch. I have instead connected the Xerox to the Time Capsule with USB and set the printer up, no problems. And it works perfectly!

A further vote of support to Douglasfromprovo's solution, I'm so pleased I found this post, I tried all sorts of configuartion, even trying ipV6 (and that was a headache). Configuring as an ip line printer worked - I really should have thought to try it myself. I too had the pause after printing, toner low and this printer doesnt support... blah blah. I'm annoyed to discover it's a driver problem. Come on Xerox, Lion has been out for quite a while now, sort your driver out!

Xerox has just 2 days ago (Mar 16) released a firmware update for the 6280 (Firmware version 13.42). Installing it partly solves the Printer Paused problem in that it will now tell you the printer is paused and when you click Resume it will print your job. BUT it then says IP 2.0 doesn't work, trying IP 1.1, prints the job BUT leaves it in the print queue.

I'm going back to using a USB connection to my Time Capsule, which as I noted earlier cures the problem.

Frankly Xerox have been **** poor with this product. My company bought this printer on the understanding (from Xerox in writing) that a Lion driver would be available third quarter 2011. That then moved to 4th quarter. That then moved to 1st quarter 2012 and now has moved again to mid 2012. Have got the thing to work but has been buggy and troublesome.

Even worse - try contacting them about it. Standard replies and no acknowledghement of your issue.

As far as i'm concerned, Xerox are a good example of a faceless corporation with crap customer service and badly over-run support projects.

I have seen plenty of other products including older models from the usual manufactures where drivers for Lion have been delivered in reasonable timescales so ditching Xerox from now on and good riddance. Switching to Epson Work force printers now which are also a lot cheaper to run, offer far better graphic reproduction for presentation documents and not a lot slower...

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